The closing gag has two of the boys kissing. (The instigator thinks he's with a woman.)

A man in a cemetery shoots and injures a boy with buckshot.

The boys find rifles in a haunted house and fire them.

One youth has a brief fistfight with a villain near the end.

A white youth bumps into his black friend in the dark and says, "Next time you come out of the dark, put a coat of whitewash on, will ya?" He replies, "I'm so scared, I'm turning white now."

Another character says to him, "Ah, you're yella." He replies, "If I'm yella you're colorblind."

In the kissing scene (mentioned above), the boy being kissed is black. His race seems to be part of the joke.

Despite the color jokes, the gang treats him no different than they do one another. Although he is portrayed as the wide-eyed, frightened black, he seems no more frightened by his scary predicament than his friends are.

A dwarf becomes the butt of jokes about his size. When two of the boys capture him and seek a place to keep him, Scrunno says, "I wish we had a mousetrap."

Characters make many references to the "monster killer" and how he sucks blood.

A boy becomes a "zombie" and moves about as if in a trance.

There are many spooky scenes in a cemetery and a shadowy, cobwebbed house with hidden passageways. The horror star <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000509/?ref_=ttpg_gi">Bela Lugosi</a> is typically frightening in appearance and manner. He looks like his most famous character, Dracula.

A floating skull with glowing eyes vows revenge. (This turns out to be the boys in disguise.)

There are many other supernatural occurrences, including objects that move on their own and a character who can vanish into thin air. They are (unconvincingly) explained away at the end.

The general comic tone of this film may mitigate the effect of the scary scenes.